Matt James admits it was “frustrating” watching his season of “The Bachelor” as the show’s first Black lead in 2021. James told the Los Angeles Times: “There was nothing to lay the framework — my background, who I was or why I’m here. “The show went straight into seeing these women doing crazy things.
It was very frustrating to watch.” The piece stated that the show failed “to show him as an accomplished young Black man who had overcome many personal and professional challenges.” James’s season would be draped in controversy with the Chris Harrison drama and the issues surrounding Rachael Kirkconnell, to whom James gave his final rose.
They split after the show once a 2018 photo of her attending an antebellum South-themed party in 2018 was released and it was revealed she had ‘liked’ racially insensitive posts on social media.
They’ve since got back together. READ MORE: Matt James Says Tyler Cameron Should Be Hired To Fix ‘The Bachelor’ In James’s new book First Impressions: Off-Screen Conversations With a Bachelor on Race, Family, and Forgiveness, he doesn’t mention the controversy often. “I didn’t want to use that story for people to engage with my book,” he said. “There will be another Bachelor, and there will probably be another Black Bachelor, and there will be another tell-all book.
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